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Charles Lamb (February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834) was an English writer known for his essays and literary criticism. Lamb is celebrated for his unique sense of humor and profound insights into everyday life. His most famous works include 'Elias Ward' and 'The Tales of a Grandfather'.

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Famous Charles Lamb Quotes

“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.”

Thinking Music Harmony Tunes Incapable

Author:Charles Lamb

“I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”

Thinking Book Reading

Book:The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana

“Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?”

Thinking Book Reading Five Minutes Ready Depends Six Dinner Queens Volume Sermons Impatient Bishops Faerie Andrew

Author:Charles Lamb

“Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”

Thinking I Can Book I Can Read

Author:Charles Lamb

“When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.”

Thinking Reading Walking

Book:Elia

Source: Elia

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”

Thinking Men Mind Book Loses

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Natural Wife Childhood Tales Fairy Feds Fairy Tale Geography Fairytale Fables Natural History

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.”

Thinking Science Time Space Trouble Puzzles Time And Space

Author:Charles Lamb

“Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Looks Light Heaven Fear Doubt Cheer Shed Lamps Traveller Clearing Starlight

Author:Charles Lamb

“The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"”

Thinking Knows Men Said Hate Courses One Day I Hate Lambs

Author:Charles Lamb

“'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.”

Thinking Love Sweet Lips Dear Making Love

Author:Charles Lamb

“You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.”

Thinking Way May Casts Way Of Thinking Mould

Book:Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund

Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund